Super Rachel Zana's Spot

This Christmas season he stole his Dad’s Grinch onesie pajamas, and he’s one happy (but yet grinchy) guy.

For weeks he’s been asking to see Santa at Bentleyville (our enormous local Christmas light display).  It wasn’t because he was particularly excited about seeing Santa, which is not really a big deal around here.  If you see Santa at Bentleyville, however, you receive a free hat.  Most specifically, a…

The other tooth came out!  He was super excited.  Both of us have been waiting and waiting for it to become loose. We were starting to think that maybe the other tooth would make it all the way in before the second front tooth could be pulled, but a few days…

I had a birthday earlier this month, and it was a very busy day.  One kid had an oboe lesson.  One kid had a violin lesson. I had a cello lesson.  Dr. Peds was working at the hospital.  We didn’t really have time to do a lot of celebrating, but…

On Thursdays he comes home from school and is the only kidlet home for the first hour because The Banana is at math club, and the bigger kidlets are still in school.  This means he has an entire half hour before I start teaching to verbally expunge everything that happened…

No I am not dead. I have however, conquered the post office!  My Christmas cards have been mailed.  The packages traveling to long distance friends and family have almost all been mailed.  Hooray.  It’s been hanging over my head for multiple days, and I’m so glad that it’s done, even…

This was probably the warmest year ever for Christmas cutting day.  It was almost a little disconcerting.  We had so much snow during the last part of October and November, but over the last 10 days our temperatures have been in the lower 40’s, and almost all of the snow…

Even if it is icy, you can’t go to the beach and leave your boots on.  Baby Cousin Elizabeth didn’t want to be left out either. Critter in the Candy:  a family board game tradition that just keeps going. Who doesn’t love a board game with a popper, right?